Installing Ruby

Installing ruby on rails is very easy. But don’t be mistaken, i made many errors before I finally managed to make it work.

Visit http://rubyonrails.org/download and download the latest rubyonrails windows installer. At the time of writing this article, it was 1.9.2. Download the rubygems zip files. You will find the download link on the same page.

Run the windows installer. After installing the ruby on rails, extract the rubygems and put them at an easy to find path e.g d:\ruby gems. Using the command prompt, navigate to the path where we have the setup.rb file. Then run :

D:\rubygems>Ruby setup.rb. You will see a screen like the one below.

Since ruby is now installed, we can now install all of Rails and its dependencies through the command line:

gem install rails

Congratulations, you have managed to install ruby on rails on your machine.